DAVE WECKL BAND — Live (And Very Plugged In) 2CD (2003) Two Version | APE (image+.cue), lossless & FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1-1    Wake Up    8:05
1-2    Braziluba    10:41
1-3    Mesmer-Eyes    7:50
1-4    Oasis    8:40
1-5    Crossing Paths    10:46
1-6    Hesitation (Sax/Drum Intro.)    3:01
1-7    The Chicken    10:33
2-1    Toby's Blues    10:08
2-2    Just For The Record    12:00
2-3    Rhythm-A-Ning (Bass/Drum Duet)    10:06
2-4    Cultural Concurrence (Drum Solo)    8:06
2-5    Tiempo De Festival    12:42
Credits
Bass – Tom Kennedy
Drums, Producer, Edited By, Mixed By – Dave Weckl
Keyboards – Steve Weingart
Saxophone – Gary Meek
Tenor Saxophone – Brandon Fields (tracks: 2-5)
Trombone – Bill Reichenbach (tracks: 2-5)
Trumpet – Gary Grant (tracks: 2-5), Jerry Hey (tracks: 2-5)

DAVE WECKL BAND — Multiplicity (2005) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Although still best known for his association with Chick Corea, drummer Dave Weckl has led an underrated group of his own for quite a few years. His core band, a quartet with keyboardist Steve Weingart, electric bassist Tom Kennedy, and saxophonist Gary Meek, is a little reminiscent of the Yellowjackets in its use of catchy melodies and appealing grooves and its ability to perform post-bop jazz with the sensibility of rock. Weckl does not dominate the music and gives Meek and Weingart plenty of solo space. His band deserves to be heard, and Multiplicity is an excellent example of the quartet at its best. Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1    Watch Your Step    5:30
 Gary Meek / Dave Weckl / Steve Weingart
2    Elements Of Surprise    5:42
 Gary Meek / Dave Weckl / Steve Weingart
3    Vuelo    5:56
 Steve Weingart
4    Inner Vision    6:03
 Gary Meek / Dave Weckl / Steve Weingart
5    What It Is    6:27
 Gary Meek / Dave Weckl / Steve Weingart
6    Chain Reaction    5:36
 Steve Weingart
7    Cascade    5:34
 Steve Weingart
8    Mixed Bag    6:37
 Gary Meek / Dave Weckl / Steve Weingart
9    Down On The Corner    6:54
 Ric Fierabracci / Gary Meek / Dave Weckl / Steve Weingart
Credits
Bass – Ric Fierabracci (tracks: 2, 5, 7, 9), Tom Kennedy (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8)
Drums, Percussion, Programmed By, Producer, Recorded By, Edited By, Mixed By – Dave Weckl
Guitar – Paul Pesco (tracks: 1, 5 to 9)
Keyboards – Steve Weingart
Percussion, Congas – Richie Gajate-Garcia (tracks: 2 to 4, 7, 8)
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet – Gary Meek

DAVE WECKL | JAY OLIVER — Convergence (2014) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Apocalypso 7:24
Drums – Dave Weckl
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Mixed By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Music By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Percussion – Dave Weckl
Programmed By – Jay Oliver
Recorded By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Tenor Saxophone – Gary Meek
2    Sternoids 8:43
Bass Guitar – Tom Kennedy
Drums – Dave Weckl
Guitar – Mike Stern
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Mixed By – Dave Weckl
Music By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Recorded By – Dave Weckl
Tenor Saxophone – Gary Meek
3    Carousel 5:16
Acoustic Bass – Tom Kennedy
Cajón – Dave Weckl
Drums – Dave Weckl
Electric Bass – Tom Kennedy
Harmony Vocals – Emilie-Claire Barlow
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Lead Vocals – Emilie-Claire Barlow
Lyrics By – Jay Oliver
Mixed By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Music By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Programmed By – Jay Oliver
Recorded By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Soprano Saxophone – Gary Meek
4    Road To Connemara 8:01
Accordion [Button Accordion] – Maitin O'Connor
Cajón – Dave Weckl
Drums – Dave Weckl
Fiddle – Zoe Conway
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Mixed By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Music By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Pipe [Piper] – Maitiú Ó Casaide
Programmed By – Jay Oliver
Recorded By – Dave Weckl, Ed Kenehan, Jay Oliver
Tap Dance – Mick Donegan
5    Convergence 6:04
Acoustic Bass – Tom Kennedy
Drums – Dave Weckl
Electric Bass – Tom Kennedy
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Mixed By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Music By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Programmed By – Jay Oliver
Recorded By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Tenor Saxophone – Gary Meek
6    Cups (You're Gonna Miss Me) 4:16
Backing Vocals – Nita Whittaker, Raffia Ford, Will Wheaton
Drums – Dave Weckl
Guitar – Dean Brown
Harmony Vocals – Claire Weckl
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Lead Vocals – Claire Weckl
Lyrics By – A. P. Carter, Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, Luisa Gerstein
Music By – A. P. Carter, Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, Luisa Gerstein
Other [Cups] – Claire Weckl
7    Twelvin 7:27
Acoustic Bass – Tom Kennedy
Drums – Dave Weckl
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Mixed By – Dave Weckl
Music By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Recorded By – Dave Weckl
Tenor Saxophone – Gary Meek
Trumpet – Randy Brecker
8    Hand It Over 2:39
Drums – Dave Weckl
Mixed By – Dave Weckl
Music By – Dave Weckl
Recorded By – Dave Weckl
9    Higher Ground 5:53
Backing Vocals – Abdul Hamid Royal, Nita Whittaker, Raffia Ford
Bass Guitar – Jimmy Johnson
Drums – Chris Coleman, Dave Weckl
Guitar – Dean Brown
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Lead Vocals – Chrissi Poland
Lyrics By – Stevie Wonder
Mixed By – Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver
Music By – Stevie Wonder
Programmed By – Jay Oliver
Recorded By – Dennis Moody
Tenor Saxophone – Brandon Fields
Trombone – Eric Jorgensen
Trumpet – Michael McGuffy
10    Incantation 3:48
Keyboards – Jay Oliver
Mixed By – Jay Oliver
Recorded By – Jay Oliver

THE DAVE WECKL ACOUSTIC BAND — Of The Same Mind (2014) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    What Happened To My Good Shoes 8:11
Written-By – Gary Meek
2    Something’s Happening 6:16
Written-By – Makoto Ozone
3    Songo Mikele 9:40
Written-By – Tom Kennedy
4    Stay Out 8:49
Written-By – Dave Weckl, Makoto Ozone, Tom Kennedy
5    Koolz 7:11
Written-By – Tom Kennedy
6    Stella On The Stairs 6:29
Written-By – Gary Meek
7    Pacific Grove Fog 7:24
Written-By – Gary Meek
8    Agua De La Musica 6:17
Written-By – Makoto Ozone
9    All Blues 9:44
Written-By – Miles Davis
Credits
Drums, Percussion, Mixed By, Producer – Dave Weckl
Electric Upright Bass – Tom Kennedy
Piano [Acoustic Piano], Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Organ [Hammond B3] – Makoto Ozone
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Gary Meek

ALPHONSE MOUZON — Early Spring (1988) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Drummer Alphonse Mouzon covers a lot of ground on this set, ranging from poppish R&B to straight jazz. Two selections have soulful vocals; Mouzon takes a pair of occasionally self-indulgent selections as features for his many overdubbed instruments; and the four instrumental quartet numbers feature either Gary Meek or Ronnie Laws on soprano or (in two cases) the heated tenor of Ernie Watts (who is best on "Seven Steps to Heaven"). Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1. Early Spring 5:14
2. Alone In Paris 5:38
3. Come And Fly With Me 4:03
4. We Almost Made It 6:03
5. The Lady In Red 4:32
6. Seven Steps To Heaven 4:17
7. I Can Give You Love 6:31
8. Waterfall 4:02
Recorded at George Tobin Studio, North Hollywood, CA
Juniper Studio, Burbank, CA
Mastered at Future Disk Systems, Los Angeles, CA 90068
Credits :
Jeff Daniel / Piano, Synthesizer
Brandon Fields / Sax (Alto)
Welton Gite / Bass, Piano
Ronnie Laws / Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Gary Meek / Sax (Alto)
Alphonse Mouzon /  Drums, Multi Instruments, Percussion, Synthesizer, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Jana Sorenson / Vocals (Background)
Ernie Watts / Sax (Tenor)

AIRTO MOREIRA - Struck by Lightning (1990) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    It's Time For Carnival 5:56
Acoustic Guitar – José Neto
Electric Bass [Fretless] – Randy Tico
Electric Guitar – José Neto
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – José Neto
Lyrics By – Airto Moreira
Percussion – Airto Moreira
Tamborim – Junior Homrich
Vocals – Airto Moreira
Written-By – A. Moreira
2    Burning Money (Queimando Dinheiro) 4:08
Acoustic Bass ["John Hawk" Fretless] – Randy Tico
Acoustic Guitar – José Neto
Electric Bass [Fretless] – Randy Tico
Flute, Keyboards [Korg M-1] – Gary Meek
Percussion, Vocals – Airto Moreira
Twelve-String Guitar – José Neto
Written-By – J. Neto
3    Berimbau First Cry 5:07
Berimbau, Vocals, Flute [Wooden], Percussion, Noises [Background Noises], Voice – Airto Moreira
Written-By – A. Moreira
4    Sea Horse 6:48
Acoustic Bass ["John Hawk" Fretless] – Randy Tico
Acoustic Guitar – José Neto
Electronic Wind Instrument [EWI] – Gary Meek
Lyrics By [Underwater] – Airto Moreira
Percussion, Vocals, Electronics [Electronic Water Bottle] – Airto Moreira
Twelve-String Guitar – José Neto
Written-By – J. Neto
5    Struck By Lightning 4:42
Drums [Trap Drums] – Mike Shapiro
Electric Bass – Rob Harrison
Keyboards – Marcos Silva
Lyrics By – Flora Purim
Percussion – Airto Moreira
Vocals – Flora Purim
Written-By – G. Meek
6    Samba Louco (Crazy Samba) 2:03
Electric Bass – Mark Egan
Percussion – Airto Moreira
Synthesizer [Yamaha Tx-7, Roland D-50, Fairlight SG10] – Chick Corea
Tenor Saxophone – Gary Meek
Written-By – A. Moreira, C. Corea, M. Egan
7    Seven Dwarfs 4:18
Electric Bass – Mark Egan
Electronic Wind Instrument [EWI] – Gary Meek
Percussion, Drums [Trap Drums], Vocals – Airto Moreira
Piano – Chick Corea
Soprano Saxophone – Gary Meek
Written-By – A. Moreira
8    Samba Nosso (Our Samba) 9:04
Electric Bass – Stanley Clarke
Electronic Wind Instrument [EWI] – Gary Meek
Percussion, Drums [Trap Drums], Vocals – Airto Moreira
Piano, Synthesizer [Yamaha Tx-7, Roland D-50, Fairlight SG10] – Herbie Hancock
Soprano Saxophone – Gary Meek
Written-By – A. Moreira, H. Hancock, S. Clarke
9    Skins & Rattle 5:56
Percussion – Airto Moreira
Written-By – A. Moreira

AIRTO MOREIRA AND THE GODS OF JAZZ - Killer Bees (1989) APE (image+.cue), lossless

In November of 1989, after ten years of California living, Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira felt the need to get back in touch with the free-music roots he established two decades earlier in New York City. A spate of slumberous L.A. studio sessions, in combination with a tired scene in his adoptive hometown of Santa Barbara, was beginning to take its toll on the creative percussionist. New York of the late 1960s bustled with musical vibrancy for Moreira. All night jam sessions with the likes of Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jan Hammer, Stanley Clarke, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Walker Booker were the rule for the artist. On occasion, even such heavyweight legends as Lee Morgan, Cannonball Adderley, Buster Williams, and Thelonious Monk would sit in. In an effort to shake off L.A. studio stupor and re-create the wonder days of impromptu dream team sessions, he invited long time jazz comrades Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Mark Egan, and Stanley Clarke to record improvised music with him in a local Santa Barbara studio. Jumping at the opportunity to play with their friends for the sake of playing, these musicians ended up producing the Killer Bees CD. Peppered with subtle overdubs by vocalist Flora Purim, saxophonist Gary Meek, and guitarist Hiram Bullock, Killer Bees is a set of nine tracks characterized by the sense of spontaneity and adventurousness that Airto intended to revisit. From the opening "Banana Jam," a track in which Moreira, Corea, and Egan experiment with sounds in an improvised section that eventually crescendos into a powerful bass and piano ostinato, to the concluding "Chicken on the Mind," a whimsical track that builds on the sounds of a barking dog and the cackles of Corea, this CD captures superb studio musicians playing out on a limb. If you are looking for the precise articulation of rigid song structures, then this CD may leave you feeling a bit unsatisfied. On the other hand, if you enjoy listening to evolving and amorphous forms full of mercurially virtuosic content, then Killer Bees will make you yearn for more projects that recreate Moreira's free-jazz jams of yore. by John Vallier  
Tracklist :
1     Banana Jam 6:03
Chick Corea / Mark Egan / Airto Moreira / Flora Purim
2     Be There 4:43
Stanley Clarke / Herbie Hancock / Airto Moreira
3     Killer Bees 7:36
Hiram Bullock / Chick Corea / Mark Egan / Airto Moreira
4     City Sushi Man 4:03
Hiram Bullock / Chick Corea / Mark Egan / Airto Moreira
5     See Ya Later 5:36
Chick Corea / Mark Egan / Airto Moreira
6     Never Mind 7:46
Stanley Clarke / Herbie Hancock / Airto Moreira
7     Communion 8:39
Stanley Clarke / Herbie Hancock / Airto Moreira
8     Nasty Moves 2:12
Hiram Bullock / Mark Egan / Airto Moreira
9     Chicken in the Mind 3:29
Chick Corea / Mark Egan / Airto Moreira
Credits :
Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Stanley Clarke
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Airto Moreira
Electric Bass, Fretless Bass – Mark Egan
Guitar – Hiram Bullock
Overdubbed By – Steve Hart
Piano, Keyboards – Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Gary Meek
Vocals, Producer – Flora Purim

FLORA PURIM - Perpetual Emotion (2001) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

For those who thought that despite recording, Flora Purim's musical career went out the window with her prison term in the early '90s, or, worse, at the end of 1970s jazz-world fusion boom, think again. Perpetual Emotion is the strongest recording Ms. Purim's monumental talent has given us since 1975's 500 Miles High. Accompanied by life partner and collaborator percussionist Airto Moreira, saxophonist Gary Meek, pianist Christian Jacob, bassist Trey Henry, and acoustic guitarist Oscar Castro Neves, and producer Dom Comardella, Purim has selected material that showcases the ease and flow of a voice that contains within it the passion of Brazil and the airiness of a spring day. Some of those selections, such as Cesar Mariano's "Saudade," offer the deep melancholy of looking back to places you can never again visit and reveal within them the sweeter memories they hold. Chris Jacob's piano leads the way trough the tune and strips it of any false "exotic" artifice. It's a jazz ballad with a Brazilian melody and rhythm, eased through the gates by Moreira's easy touch and a flowing bassline by Henry. On "Fotographia" by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Purim takes the tune, which has been recorded literally hundreds of times, to its folksy essence and makes of it a song that is neither jazz nor samba, but a tome of memory and longing. The highlight of the album is the revisiting of Chick Corea's and Neville Potter's "Crystal Silence." While the song had been in Purim's early repertoire as an improvisation, a wordless melody, because she had not known -- even though she had been part of Corea's Return to Forever -- that the tune had words all along. Her feeling for the original is fierce and moving; it flows from her like a river of feeling and motion, it offers the notion of seeing with new eyes that which has been present all along. Her interpretive voice has never sounded stronger, and her band is understated enough to let it come freely through the mix while providing her with musical challenges to rise to. Perpetual Emotion is the album Purim's been promising to deliver her entire career. Let us hope that this is the first of many like it to come.
(This comment is posted on Allmusic by Thom Jurek, follower of our blog 'O Púbis da Rosa')
Tracklist :
1     San Francisco River 4:57
Airto Moreira / Flora Purim
2     My Ship 4:12
Ira Gershwin / Kurt Weill
3     Escape 4:12
Flora Purim
4     Saudade 3:02
Flora Purim
5     Crystal Silence 6:17
Chick Corea / Neville Potter
6     Flora and Airto 5:00
Flora Purim
7     Fotografia 6:54
Ray Gilbert / Antônio Carlos Jobim
8     Journey to Eden 5:18
Flora Purim
9     Search for Peace 6:07
Flora Purim / McCoy Tyner
10     Airto's Jazz Dance 4:06
Flora Purim
11     Carinhoso 3:52
Pixinguinha / Flora Purim
Credits :
Acoustic Bass – Trey Henry
Acoustic Guitar – Oscar Castro-Neves
Drums, Percussion – Airto Moreira
Piano – Christian Jacob
Saxophone, Bass, Clarinet, Flute – Gary Meek
Vocals – Flora Purim